Port Talbot

Stephen Kinnock bends to lay a poppy wreath beside other wreaths at the foot of a red Welsh dragon sculpture on grass at Port Talbot steelworks
Port Talbot Steelworks

PORT TALBOT: Kinnock lays wreath 25 years after steelworks blast killed three men

Two of the men who died were in their twenties. A dozen more workers were seriously hurt.

Aerial view of National Grid's Margam substation beside the railway, with a fenced construction site for the extension next to it and the houses of Margam and Taibach on the hillside behind
Aberafan Shopping Centre

PORT TALBOT: Grid firm opens £1.06m community fund and wants telling where to spend it

The company building the substations for the furnace is giving the town a community fund to go with them, with…

Four men in pink T-shirts bearing Olivia Finch's photo, three in pink tutus with fairy wings, cross the Richard Burton 10K finish line in Cwmafan under a Tata Steel banner
Bryn

RICHARD BURTON 10K: Bourb ran through the night for Olivia, then ran the race with 3,000 others

A Tata shift manager set off on Saturday and was still running when Sunday’s race began. What he raised, who…

Aberavon Bridge in Port Talbot town centre, three stone arches over the River Afan with the white fabric canopy on a steel arch above, the Civic Centre to the left and hills behind
Aberafan Shopping Centre

PORT TALBOT: Council clears up which bridge the Chancellor’s £11m is for, and says it’s a flood risk

It is the one under the canopy at the bottom of Station Road, and it has been standing since 1842.

Four South Wales Police officers in caps and hi-vis vests gather at the front door of a red-brick house during the Operation Chirk day of action
domestic abuse

WANTED: 27 arrested in a day across Swansea and Neath Port Talbot

Officers knocked on doors from Townhill to Port Talbot last Wednesday. Where they went, who they were after, and how…

Computer-generated image of a curved three and four storey block in pale brick with balconies and a dark metal top floor on the roundabout corner of Princess Margaret Way, Aberavon, with cafe tables outside
Aberavon

ABERAVON: Four Winds pub, shut since 2020, to be flattened for 61 affordable flats and a seafront coffee shop

The scheme has come down from seven storeys and lost its shop over five years of being sent back. Five…

Olivia and Megan Finch in light blue Richard Burton 10K Mini Miler shirts with race numbers at the start line, the Tata Steel arch behind them
Bryn

RICHARD BURTON 10K: Olivia, 6, used to start the countdown. On Sunday her big sister will do it for her

Olivia Finch from Bryn died in April. Thousands of runners, her classmates and her sister Megan are making sure Cwmafan…

A doctor in a white coat with a stethoscope holds a tablet computer while a patient looks on
Castle Surgery

NEATH PORT TALBOT: Three GP surgery websites could vanish “at any time” after the firm behind them collapsed

Patients at Mount Surgery, Castle Surgery and Victoria Gardens are being told how to order repeat prescriptions and sick notes…

Rebecca Keatley smiling with her hands on her hips in a Snow White costume with a red headband, blue velvet bodice and puffed blue sleeves
CBeebies

SWANSEA: ‘It’s home from home’: CBeebies’ Rebecca Keatley is back at the Grand as Snow White

The Port Talbot-raised presenter first performed there with its youth theatre. Panto runs in the family, too.

Paul Potts in a bow tie beside a vintage microphone, inset over the Yr Aelwyd lettering on Port Talbot's rebuilt theatre
Britain's Got Talent

PORT TALBOT: Paul Potts comes home to open the rebuilt theatre, 20 years after Britain’s Got Talent

The tenor who won over the Britain’s Got Talent judges with Nessun Dorma will sing at Yr Aelwyd, the old…

Side-by-side photos of Rebecca Madge: on the left smiling in a fire engine wearing red fire kit braces, on the right in green vet scrubs stroking a white rabbit on an examination table
animal rescue

BAGLAN: Port Talbot’s new vet is also an on-call firefighter who helped rescue dogs from a flooded sanctuary

Rebecca Madge’s Vets for Pets practice on Pentwyn Baglan Road has surgery, X-rays and its own lab, and its open…